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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026
“Right now, the public backlash is so strong against Flock, and the public is not as well aware of the concerns with Axon and some of the other surveillance companies,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @thorbenson.bsky.social for @prospect.org.
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License Plate and Switch - The American Prospect
Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oh, this is SO the way it is with these babies sometimes! Captures the mood perfectly. ❤️
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Kat A. Beckett @katerinabucket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i feel like when you're just openly holding, like, universal human interests hostage like this the correct governmental response should be an international coalition aiming for your complete liquidation
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
chef's kiss wordsmithing
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
NEWSNATION: Why should we believe that now all of the sudden prices will come down after the election? KELLY LOEFFLER: We've done it before and he'll do it again. The Biden administration ... NEWSNATION: Why do you guys keep talking about the Biden administration?
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
(the late 1980s version of "cloud backups"!)
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
mmmyeah. I remember having a copy of my dissertation on floppy disk in my backpack, and another on every Multics machine I could reach 😂
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
beautifully crafted short story sankalps.xyz/the-oracles-...
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The Oracles Below
A short story. On October 17, 2027, every connected screen in the world went white.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 31/08/2026
America: We will crush Canada in this trade war. *eats lettuce, dies*
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Services I provide for my cats
Chicago streets and sanitation truck with the first s missing so it says treets and sanitation
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good job by all, controller especially and also the pilot who called out the fact someone else was responding for their flight number.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When I was growing up, the tv used to ask: "It's 10pm. Do you know where your Children are?" And the simple fact that this announcement existed, tells you everything you need to know about our childhood.
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Andrew Turley @aturls.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Oh my god it worked www.techspot.com/news/113381-...
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Google's AI told people Flock cameras were full of gold. They weren't.
The story starts with a meme: privacy advocates joking online that Flock's surveillance cameras are secretly loaded with valuable metals, worth cracking open for scrap. AI Overviews...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 05/08/2026
I wish I could shazam a smell
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The next natural disaster hitting the United States is going to be swamped with satellite and drone fakes showing minorities looting white owned patisseries
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"This is just to say" -- the blockbuster movie about friendship, betrayal, hunger, and cold, delicious plums
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atiraslight.bsky.social @atiraslight.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Though most people know Dr. Fauci from his work with COVID, he was incredibly effective in championing research and treatment for AIDs/HIV during the Reagan administration. For those of us who worked in healthcare at that time, when Reagan would not even utter the word AIDs, he sustained us. Thanks.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
they should make ice cream trucks for samosas
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
the comments are gold, too, and very on point
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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
truly, we live in the stupidest timeline.
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/06/2026
When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 25/06/2026
2025 cat tour grand marshal Susan Lynx inserting a subversive acronym into news coverage about the passing of the sash.
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Wedge Cat Tour attracts crowds to Minneapolis neighborhood
The 2026 Cat Tour wound its way through the Wedge neighborhood of Minneapolis this evening. For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mother fuck- kitten fosters there’s a potential recall in process for all Breeders Edge/Shelter Choice puppy and kitten formulas. For non foster folks- these are the gold standard formulas. This is a big deal For Team Potat- this is a freaking nightmare.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.
Margaret Calvert, designer with Jock Kinneir of the UK’s road signage, with a huge round birthday cake in the shape of a 90 mph speed limit sign.
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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My toddler saw some council workers with a pneumatic drill, and in a break in the noise she shouted, "Look at those naughty boys digging up the road!" The "naughty boys" got the giggles
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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 03/05/2026
Who called them tariffs instead of “Trumped upcharges”
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yup. It's a small thing but very telling. The depth of hatred/disdain for women never ceases to amaze me.
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
attention humans this is the sound of an llm being eaten by cthulhu
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Exactly.
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I think it should also involve copious amounts of poison ivy.
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
brilliant
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I work at the Strait of Hormuz McDonald's and our ice cream machine is up and running if anyone would like a sweet treat!
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Sperm whale: come here giant squid I'm hungry Squid: leave me alone Sperm Whale: No Squid: I won't tell you again Sperm whale: or you'll do what Squid: me? nothing. He will though Sperm whale: What the fuck is that thing Squid: SAY HELLO TO BIG BROTHER, PUNK
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yup, it’s pretty disturbing that you will, as far as I can tell, NEVER see an avatar for an AI assistant that is a middle-aged+ white man, because a white man cannot be pictured as subservient.
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I have no clue how much money the OP is really talking about. I just tossed my wish list up here. 💖
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ALSO THIS. Also two Irish coffee glasses for @zem42.bsky.social from where I got my two. I don't know how much money we're talking here, but I have such a list... 😄
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The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A harp. Well-paid assistant to be my executive function. Small electric vehicle. Beautiful art. Concierge health care (including surgery to remove a couple things). Oodles of donations to pet rescues. Retirement for me and my friends so we can relax and spend time together.
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